四个女人分别嫁给了四兄弟。一个夏天在等待丈夫回家休假的过程中，四人分别述说了各自的婚姻状况。一个因自己红杏出墙引致与丈夫争吵，一个在巴黎与一个艺术家相恋并有了孩子但却拒绝结婚，一个讲述了夫妻俩被困电梯的故事，最后一个则要与情人男友私奔。　　伯格曼用室内剧的形式将女人们内心的秘密一一暴露出来，然而影片也强调这并不能减轻她…

　　A seemingly happy Swedish housewife and mother begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist who is working near her home. But he is an emotionally scarred man, a Jewish survivor from a concentration camp who found refuge in t…